Toni Morrison 
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/28/2021
Banning "Beloved" Won't Help Protect Kids, But it Will Help Sanitize Racism
by Farah Jasmine Griffin
It's worthwhile to consider Morrison's characterization of censoring Huck Finn as a “purist and yet elementary kind of censorship designed to appease adults rather than educate children.”
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SOURCE: Boston Review
9/7/2021
Toni Morrison's Vision of Justice Was an Ethos of Care
by Farah Jasmine Griffin
"What does justice look like for centuries of systemic abuse and violence enacted by a society built upon withholding justice from Black people? In all of her novels Toni Morrison contemplates the nature and practice of justice."
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SOURCE: The Conversation
2/18/2021
How a Mass Suicide by Slaves Caused the Legend of the Flying African to Take Off
by Thomas Hallock
A major trope of African American folklore converted an ill-fated effort at escape into a tale of freedom. Though the "flying Africans" story has been told and recorded throughout the African diaspora in the Americas, St. Simons Island, Georgia, is the home of the myth.
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SOURCE: The Nation
8/7/2019
Toni Morrison and the ‘Human Project’
by Robert Greene II
Through her novels and essays, Morrison helped inspire a generation of writers to reckon with American history.
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SOURCE: New Republic
10-11-17
Toni Morrison’s Radical Vision of Otherness
by Nell Irvin Painter
The history of racism and exclusion in the United States is the history of whiteness.
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